Play Like Slowhand With The Clapton Scale

By Eric Hufschmid

Hey guys,

In today’s lesson we are going to look at a scale modification used famously by Eric Clapton. Although primarily an electric blues player, Clapton has also been known to wield an acoustic most famously at his unplugged concert. The Clapton scale is primarily a minor pentatonic but with an added minor second to give is a more sad feel.